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TL52914
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Cosmological Narrative in the Synagogues of Late Roman-Byzantine Palestine
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Erickson, Bradley Charles
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Magness, Jodi
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2020
GENERAL NOTES
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319 p.
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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2020
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The night sky provided ancient peoples with a visible framework through which they could view and experience the divine. Ancient astronomers looked to the night sky for practical reasons, such as the construction of calendars by which time could evenly be divided, and for prognosis, such as the foretelling of future events based on the movements of the planets and stars. While scholars have written much about the Greco-Roman understanding of the night sky, few studies exist that examine Jewish cosmological thought in relation to the appearance of the Late Roman-Byzantine synagogue Helios-zodiac cycle. This dissertation surveys the ways that ancient Jews experienced the night sky, including literature of the Second Temple (sixth century BCE - 70 CE), rabbinic and mystical writings, and Helios-zodiac cycles in synagogues of ancient Palestine. I argue that Judaism joined an evolving Greco-Roman cosmology with ancient Jewish traditions as a means of producing knowledge of the earthly and heavenly realms.
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Archaeology
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Classical studies
Subject Term
Judaic studies
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Erickson, Bradley Charles
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Magness, Jodi
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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